Marco Rubio

Marco Antonio Rubio (born May 28, 1971) is an American politician and lawyer. Rubio was the Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives during the 2007 and 2008 legislative sessions. He was first elected to the Florida House as a Republican on January 25, 2000, from the 111th district.

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After a heated exchange between President Donald Trump and CNN reporter Jim Acosta during a post-election news conference Wednesday, the White House suspended Acosta's credentials. Acosta and his network have been the administration's primary targets...

Sen. Marco Rubio has introduced a paid-leave bill that would allow parents to collect Social Security benefits following the arrival of a new child, even if those parents are not retired.
The benefits would be used to finance time away from work, and...

WATERTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — The images Spenser Rapone posted on Twitter from his West Point graduation were intentionally shocking: In one, the smirking cadet opens his dress uniform to expose a T-shirt with a blood-red image of socialist icon Che Guevara....

WASHINGTON — After a 10-day break, members of Congress are returning to work under hefty pressure to respond to the outcry over gun violence. But no plan appears ready to take off despite a long list of proposals, including many from President Donald...

The progression has become numbingly repetitive — mass bloodshed unleashed by a gunman, followed by the stories of the fallen, the funerals, the mourning, the talking heads and the calls for change that dwindle into nothingness.
The shooting at Marjory...

Student survivors of the deadly Florida school shooting who hope to become the face of a revived gun control movement are on a potential collision course with President Donald Trump.
Several of the students have criticized the president, whose election...

Some Senate Republicans, Marco Rubio chief among them, are warming up to an innovative paid maternity leave proposal first put forth by the Independent Women's Forum, a conservative group.
While legislation has yet to be ironed out, the plan as...

WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans finished rewriting their massive plan to overhaul the tax code on Friday, adding in a significant expansion of the Child Tax Credit aimed at boosting benefits for low-income families.
The change was added to meet...

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Do Pennsylvania's Republican congressmen support Donald Trump as their party's presidential nominee? As Ohio Gov. John Kasich quit the race Wednesday, some were backing Trump, others were ducking the question — and one was voicing concerns.
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ALLENTOWN — Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz showed his softer side Friday in Allentown, slowly working his way through the packed Hamilton Family Restaurant in an Oxford shirt and blue jeans, chatting with patrons, stopping for dozens of...

Some 40 states have already voted in the presidential primary.Finally, the presidential nomination campaigns move to the Northeast. New York votes on April 19 and five more states — including critical Pennsylvania — vote one week later.Even now, the...

WASHINGTON — Here's a twist: The presidential candidates on both sides of the political aisle are still battling it out heading into Pennsylvania's April 26 primary.
A Republican field that started with 17 contenders has been whittled to three, with a...

Step right up, folks, to the Ted Cruz-John Kasich game. The aim is to push out the candidate who could win in November in favor of the one who can't.Everything else has failed to stop Donald Trump, but the Republicans' strategy of putting their few...

After seeing his preferred candidate drop out of the presidential race, U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey says he's in no rush to endorse another.
Toomey, a Republican seeking his second term, said Monday he is not ready to weigh in on who he'd like to see at the top...

The day after winning his home state, Ohio Gov. John Kasich eyed votes -- and money -- near Philadelphia.The Republican presidential contender held a town hall in Villanova, then convened a more intimate meeting at the posh Merion Golf Club, bringing...

Could John Kasich be single-handedly destroying a political party?
Either by helping Donald Trump win the Republican nomination or by dragging the party into an ugly contested convention, Kasich seems to be causing a lot of trouble.
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VILLANOVA — With an all-important win under his belt in his home state of Ohio, Gov. John Kasich has one goal: Make himself the Republicans' most credible alternative to Donald Trump.
He can't catch his party's flamboyant front-runner in the delegate...

Ahead of a pivotal primary contest tomorrow in Ohio, it was Republican presidential candidate John Kasich's status on Pennsylvania's primary ballot that became an issue over the weekend.
Kasich, who trails the rest of the GOP field in delegates, needs...